Tag: MGNREGA
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Disturbing Portents
The unorganised sector that employs the majority of workers is floundering; the number of people seeking employment under MGNREGA has risen alarmingly, exhausting the entire budget for MGNREGA in 21 States in the first six months and forcing the Centre to run a negative balance of Rs.8,686 crores even after work could not be provided to 13 per cent households. Unemployment and inflation are soaring, reducing the earnings of the poor
January 13, 2022 -
Waste to wealth initiatives taken under Clean Green Village campaign under MGNREGA as part of Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav
The activity saw enthusiastic involvement of villagers nationwide, the Ministry of Rural Development said.
November 10, 2021 -
Entitlement Awareness Week for MGNREGA workers conducted by states and Union Territories
The MGNREGA was enacted in 2005 to guarantee at least 100 days of employment per year to every rural household whose adult members volunteer to do manual unskilled work.
September 3, 2021 -
ISRO satellites to help monitoring of MGNREGA works in rural India
This is for the first time in the world that such a hi-tech technology is used to integrate a wide variety of thematic layers, multi-temporal high resolution earth observation data to analyse performance and position of previous work assets completed under various schemes and evaluate it through appropriate state authorities.
August 26, 2021 -
Turtle safety: HC panel seeks more vigil on trawlers
The mortality of the olive ridleys along the Odisha coast is attributed mainly due to the trawling operations in the sea as incidental killing due to suffocation in fishing nets of trawlers or by injury inflicted by the propellers of the trawler, the experts' panel stated in its report.
March 17, 2021 -
Akhilesh Yadav takes a jibe at UP CM on promise of providing jobs
Seeking to provide employment to migrant workers, Adityanath had recently announced a plan to generate 1 crore jobs and asked officials to increase work avenues.
June 23, 2020 -
MGNREGA must be ‘scaled up’ to help migrant workers, Congress to Centre
Congress leader Abhishek Singhvi said as many as 12 crore people, as of March 31, 2020, have benefitted cumulatively from this scheme ever since its inception.
June 9, 2020 -
Reform without a human face
Workers must be empowered and not robbed of their rights, argues Alok Ray.
May 26, 2020 -
Amphan claims 72 lives in Bengal
CM announces an ex-gratia of Rs 2.5 lakh for family members of deceased.
May 22, 2020 -
UP to employ migrants reaching home for making 10,000 km roads under MGNREGA, PMGSY
A maximum of 42 roads will be built under the PM's flagship scheme in Deoria district, followed by Amroha with 35 new roads.
May 13, 2020 -
Sonia Gandhi asks PM Modi to give 21 days’ wages in advance to MGNREGA workers
Devoid of an alternative source of income, she said an increasingly large number of the rural poor are expected to demand work under MGNREGA.
April 1, 2020 -
Whither vision, innovation?
There was no innovative, expansionary vision on display as the hapless finance minister, grappling with revenue, debt, expenditure going out of kilter and jobs disappearing across the board, used eloquent and unwarranted optimism instead, projecting a 10 per cent growth.
February 2, 2020 -
Bankura tops nation in MGNREGA performance
District created 1.56 crore man-days under MGNREGA during 2018-19
December 16, 2019 -
Bengal tops again in MGNREGA, informs Mamata Banerjee
“I am very happy to share with all of you that West Bengal has got National Award - first prize for 100 days work programme for livelihoods promotion and convergence, as per the announcement of Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India”, she said in a Facebook post.
December 15, 2019 -
Punjab to clear pending MGNREGA wages
The minister said Punjab has made it clear that the total liability of labour component in MGNREGA scheme lies with the Union government.
September 12, 2019 -
‘Government will have to tackle farm distress
Dey maintains that the concerns of civil society organisations were not misplaced and that the Narendra Modi government 2.0 will have to face the harsh realities of farmers’ distress and unemployment on the ground sooner or later.
July 6, 2019 -
Government seeks to cancel fake MGNREGA cards
There have been several complaints that though a number of beneficiaries of Bangla Awas Yojna had received funds, they did not construct houses.
June 28, 2019